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March 16, 2010

Bandy Heritage Center presents lecture on Georgia author Flannery O’Connor

Submitted by Dalton State College Dalton Daily Citizen

DALTON — As part of its “2009-2010: Celebrating Georgia’s Women Authors” lecture series, the Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia will present “Flannery O’Connor in the 21st Century” on Thursday.

Jean W. Cash, Professor of English Emerita at James Madison University in Virginia, will deliver the lecture, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in room 105 of the James E. Brown Center on campus.

“Dr. Cash is the author of ‘Flannery O’Connor: A Life,’ which is the first full-length biography that traces the development of this major Southern writer,” said Jane Taylor, director of public relations for Dalton State. “O’Connor was known for writing short stories that contained elements of the Gothic and the grotesque, and she was also known for her biting humor and skillful use of irony.”

O’Connor was born in Savannah and spent most of her 39 years living in Milledgeville on her family’s farm. Her life was cut short by lupus. She wrote dozens of short stories and several novels that captured what life was like in the South, primarily during the 1940s and 1950s.

“She is probably best known for her short story ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ a story that at the time would have been considered very shocking because it involved the violent deaths of an entire family,” Taylor added. “O’Connor often used shocking events in her fiction to jolt her readers away from complacency and to make them examine their own lives more closely. She was a devout Catholic, and her strong religious beliefs are evident in many of her writings.”

The lecture, which is part of the Dicksie Bradley Bandy Memorial Lecture Series, is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. For more information, please call Heather Howell at (706) 272-4452.

 

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